things fall apart

i'm grumpy today for a number of reasons. the most important being one of our instruments is down at work and i can't figure out wtf is wrong with it. my coworker who is normally responsible for the machine is on vacation in taiwan (visiting family) and not due back until next week. meanwhile i have samples to analyze. and now the autosampler on the dsc is acting up too. this isn't as big an issue because i can just disable it and run the samples manually but umm...why everything gotta wait until i'm here on my own to start messing up???

i'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the concert preparations. the photographer i really wanted to hire is way out of our budget so we'll most likely have to do with someone else. i haven't been on top of getting sponsorship like i should've been and now it's probably too late to get much of anything. my personal number went out with the press release so my phone will be incessantly ringing with strange numbers (the first was last night at 10pm - excuse me but 10pm is not a decent hour to be calling anyone you don't know personally). i know most of my anxiety is due to my pessimistic attitude so i'm trying to calm myself down.

lastly, i joined match.com for real for real last week. so far my profile has been viewed 25 times and i've gotten one email. my stats are terrible. but just browsing through profiles i didn't see a whole lot of ppl i'd be interested in. sean says i'm just gonna have to get some the old-fashioned way. i think he means pay for it.